RURAL in a Sentence

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31 example sentences for RURAL, such as:

1. The rural world was not ripe for him.
2. Recent economic doldrums have damaged the rural west.
3. Good woolen socks are hard to find in the rural market.
4. All rural settlements were classified according to their size.
5. They announced the initiation of a rural development programme.

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 Meanings and Examples of RURAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rural
 a.  country; relating to rural areas
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The bitter weather had driven every one indoors and Ethan had the long rural street to himself.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  The sky above turned slowly from azure to the delicate blue-green of a robin's egg, and the unearthly stillness of rural twilight came stealthily down about her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  The sight of so much hurrying made Scarlett, fresh from rural leisure and quiet, almost breathless, but she liked it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Tonight when Atlanta was so quiet, she could close her eyes and imagine she was back in the rural stillness of Tara and that life was unchanged, unchanging.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  The mail service in the South was uncertain and in the rural districts there was none at all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  Country negroes flocked into the cities, leaving the rural districts without labor to make the crops.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  The fragrance of the late blossoms seemed an emanation of the tranquil scene, a landscape tutored to the last degree of rural elegance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
8  The auto, the telephone, rural free delivery; they're bringing the farmers in closer touch with the town.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  Cleric had explained to us that 'patria' here meant, not a nation or even a province, but the little rural neighbourhood on the Mincio where the poet was born.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
10  Manifestly not, since some work is easy and some hard, and we should have millions of rural mail carriers, and no coal miners.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
11  It was a scene of bustle and life, as if the whole vicinity had poured forth its inhabitants to a village wake, or rural feast.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
12  He was one of a class rapidly becoming extinct in Wessex, filling at present in the rural world the place which, during the last century, the dodo occupied in the world of animals.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
13  The rural world was not ripe for him.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
14  Planting himself before his dispatch-box, he rubbed his hands with a satisfaction worthy of an incorruptible rural magistrate when adjourning for luncheon; after which he extracted from the receptacle a bundle of papers.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
15  To Chichikov's curses at Selifan for not having drawn out of the way with more alacrity a rural constable with moustaches of the length of an arshin added his quota.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  In the last thirty years, more than a thousand rural workers and activists have been killed in land disputes in Brazil, seven hundred and seventy-two of those in Para.
2  Although Jane Austen sets her novels in small rural communities, her concerns are universal, not parochial,.
3  The transition from a rural agrarian to an urban lifestyle merits applying the term revolutionary to the process of industrialization.
4  Good woolen socks are hard to find in the rural market.
5  All rural settlements were classified according to their size.
6  Recent economic doldrums have damaged the rural west.
7  They announced the initiation of a rural development programme.
8  The government wants to encourage viable self-contained rural communities.
9  Christmas is causing heavier debate in rural of China whereas some in urban refuse it.
10  Metro Meteor, a 10-year-old thoroughbred bay in rural Maryland, is enjoying singular success.
11  Bangladeshi television stations broadcast images of rural polling stations charred by arson attacks, and of bodies wrapped in red blankets.